If Not for Mary

If not for Mary, if not for Mary, if not for Mary. The line came to me as I was in that dangerous place of sleeping to being awake. That dangerous time in a day when some of my deepest thoughts come. I knew it was meant for my next blog post. If not for…

Only By Grace

A couple months ago I was talking with my mentor. And I was telling her that going to church was really hard. I didn’t want to pray. I didn’t want to go to mass. I had one day off a week and I wanted to spend it in my underwear watching tv – I didn’t…

Learning to Dance in the Rain

Life is hard and transitions suck. Graduating college was great, but the period of transition following is hard. Harder than I expected. Because not only am I transitioning, but the lives of the people around me are all transitioning too and we’re not transitioning together, but each in our own ways. Something I have realized…

Hump Day Inspiration – Mother Teresa Edition

In light of so much negativity and obsessing over the results of this most recent election, and in light of the exhaustion that strikes many teachers and students at this time of year I thought I would share a tid-bit of what I’ve been reading and reflecting on from Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa so often…

A Change in Mission

This semester has been – hmm – insane. It’s been so good. I love my clinical. I don’t mind class (maybe my perspective skewed because graduation is less than 50 days away so I don’t care all too much). I love my preceptor. But it has been busy, so busy and so hard in different…

Are You Willing to Face Your Wounds?

The last several months have felt like I’m in survival mode, and the last 2 mos have really felt like I was in survival mode. A lot of things happened at once and I just had to get through. There wasn’t time to think, to feel, to rest… I had to do what I had…

I Am Super Woman

The last 6 weeks have been pretty insane, but especially the last 3 weeks. One of my best friends had a baby, and I’ve always been one who is counted as a sister. She had a long and hard labor and some other issues due to her 9lb baby. Meaning they needed an extra hand,…